Leaders & Recent Graduates At Elisha's Room

DR. CORNELIUS QUEK, FOUNDER & OVERSEER.

PHILLIP JORNALEShails from Southern California, where he developed a passion for God’s presence, relationships, and ushering people into the love of the Father. In 2015, he moved to Dallas, TX to earn a Master of Divinity at The King’s University and pursue Navy Chaplaincy. After the latter fell through, due to a back injury, Jesus encouraged him to write a book on God’s relentless desire—a project that would ultimately heal his heart. Philip’s dream is to one day plant a church in Portland, OR, alongside his best friends, to see revival come in Rip City. His current housemates say he has the soothing voice of Nicolas Cage.

LORENZO ECHOLS is a prophetic worship leader from Columbus Ohio with a passion to see the youth of the world step into their identities as sons and daughters. When not leading worship, you can normally find him making music, in the dance studio, or hanging with friends and furthering the gospel! Lorenzo is super pumped for this year and can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store!

BEN HAMPSONis from Birmingham, England. Before arriving in Redding he completed his bachelor's degree in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. Originally he intended to study politics, but God called Him to invest in ministry first. He is still passionate to see the Kingdom come in politics and government across the world and feels called to be part of that in the future. In the meantime he enjoys coffee shops, any motorsport, road cycling, and a healthy dose of The West Wing.

DANIEL DORSCHwas born and raised in a small village in Germany and is currently a first year student at BSSM. He has a passion for the prophetic to invade the marketplace. He loves to encourage and empower people. In his free time he loves going outdoors and does sports-climbing as well as running.

JOSHUA JOHNSON is a passionate creative who loves to play outside. Growing up in Lake Tahoe CA, naturally he came to love the outdoors. He is also someone who loves creating, whether that be music or visual arts. Having always been a passionate person, Joshua now finds his passion in doing life with Jesus in everything and that abundant life is what we were made for in God. He desires to see people encounter God as life-giver and people actually transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit.

NOAH KANDI, INTERN & HOUSE LEADER

NOAH is from Modesto, California and is the House Leader & intern for Dr. Cornelius Quek. After the call of God to attend the One Thing Internship at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, his heart was set on full-time ministry. In 2015, he headed toward Bethel Redding to attend BSSM. Noah is currently in his Third Year. He has a passion to see the state of California set ablaze by the Spirit of Adoption; to bring unity to the Body of Christ cross-denominationally! His plans are to plant “houses of prayer”, local support systems connecting ministries, and “community house internships” where young men of various church backgrounds are sharpened and influenced to step into a corporate calling; Worshippers, in Spirit and in truth.

SAM TORREShas a heart for the Presence. His focus is that Jesus would be the center, and this year he wants to create a space and atmosphere of authenticity, where everyone can fully be themselves, unashamed and wide-open. He has been leading worship for nearly 4 years and has a heart to facilitate and foster space for other creatives, so that they could explore their hearts and passion.

HUNTER RICKS is from Houston, TX and is currently doing BSSM 1st year. He has a heart for the lost and longs to see them encounter the Father’s love and walk in complete freedom. Hunter also has a heart for the nations and was living in Guatemala working in a local school before moving to Redding for BSSM. He values friendships, family, and community. In his off time he loves to be outside, whether its hunting, fishing, climbing a mountain, or just sitting out by a campfire.

KYLE KOCHEL was born, bred, and baptized in Reading, Pennsylvania. He has a strong passion to disciple people one on one to help them see their identity in Christ. After attending college at Penn State (We are!) he felt a calling to attend BSSM to go deeper in His relationship with the Lord. Kyle hopes to bring the heart of the Father into the engineering/business world to see people truly transformed and set free. He also hopes to go to space one day, that he may literally “preach the gospel to all creation.”

CODYCAWLFIELD is from Seattle, Washington and is planning to attend all 3 years of BSSM, and is currently in his 2nd year. He's passionate about family, community, and connection, which he wants to live out by helping people become healthy and whole while living in community that is a manifestation of the Kingdom, where family is created and restored. Additionally, he loves cats, hiking, the outdoors, photography, art, and listening to the sound of rain.

TIM CIZEJ is from Ontario, Canada. He has a God-given curiosity that keeps him exploring everywhere he goes. He loves to experiment and test his limits. He gets excited about opportunities to be generous. He also enjoys writing, cooking, hockey, soccer, and being a self-professed music nerd. He has a heart to see freedom come to the oppressed and enslaved and after completing BSSM, he hopes to work for an American-based anti-trafficking organization.

Character.At the end of the day we want to know the real you. Not just what you can do.

Honor.Simply because we want to be treated the same way.

Fun.The only way to live this life. Have a blast.

Creativity. You are the expression of who He is. We need your expression.

What We Do

FAM FRIDAY. Weekly Friday family time. This could look like hunting for meat, cooking and feasting after, training to scale Mount Shasta and Everest after, or hanging out in the living room, shooting the breeze about life. No, really, we just want to do family really well.